Clamour
noun
A loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting.
The clamour in the room grew louder as the debate intensified.
Often appears as...
- loud clamour
- clamour of voices
verb
To make loud demands or complaints.
The crowds were clamouring for justice.
Often appears as...
- clamour for justice
- clamour for change
noun
A powerful demand for something by many people.
There was a public clamour for an inquiry.
Often appears as...
- public clamour
- clamour for reform
noun
A loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting.
The clamour in the room grew louder as the debate intensified.
Often appears as...
- loud clamour
- clamour of voices
verb
To make loud demands or complaints.
The crowds were clamouring for justice.
Often appears as...
- clamour for justice
- clamour for change
noun
A powerful demand for something by many people.
There was a public clamour for an inquiry.
Often appears as...
- public clamour
- clamour for reform
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Chaotic Situations
Use 'clamour' to describe very noisy situations where many people are talking or shouting at once.
The clamour of excited fans filled the stadium after the goal.
Pro Tip 2/3Increasing Volume
Indicates the volume escalates as people try to speak over one another.
The classroom erupted into clamour when the bell rang.
Pro Tip 3/3Lack of Clarity
'Clamour' suggests confusion and difficulty in discerning individual words or sounds.
Amidst the clamour, I couldn't hear my own thoughts.
Pro Tip 1/3Chaotic Situations
Use 'clamour' to describe very noisy situations where many people are talking or shouting at once.
The clamour of excited fans filled the stadium after the goal.
Pro Tip 2/3Increasing Volume
Indicates the volume escalates as people try to speak over one another.
The classroom erupted into clamour when the bell rang.
Pro Tip 3/3Lack of Clarity
'Clamour' suggests confusion and difficulty in discerning individual words or sounds.
Amidst the clamour, I couldn't hear my own thoughts.
Pro Tip 1/3Chaotic Situations
Use 'clamour' to describe very noisy situations where many people are talking or shouting at once.
The clamour of excited fans filled the stadium after the goal.
Pro Tip 2/3Increasing Volume
Indicates the volume escalates as people try to speak over one another.
The classroom erupted into clamour when the bell rang.
Pro Tip 3/3Lack of Clarity
'Clamour' suggests confusion and difficulty in discerning individual words or sounds.
Amidst the clamour, I couldn't hear my own thoughts.
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The pleasure of poetic...
a repeated pattern of stressed syllables, is a form of repetition. Yet for all its varied uses, too much repetition can backfire. Imagine writing the same sentence on the blackboard twenty times, again, and again, and again, and again, or imagine a young child clamoring for her mother's attention,
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Making waves: The power...
the concentration of salt ions. So, down you go, riding along the concentration gradient towards more comfortable conditions. For salt ions, however, their lower concentration at the surface, acts like an advertisement to the clamoring masses of salt molecules below who begin their assent.
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What's wrong with what...
So now, you've got your pizza nights, you've got your microwave nights, you've got your grazing nights, you've got your fend-for-yourself nights and so on. Leading the way -- what's leading the way? Meat, junk food, the very stuff that will kill you. So, now we clamor for organic food.
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What does your time feel...
but here we are clamoring for any air-conditioned building in sight even though it seems like just yesterday we were all rattling on about the polar vortex it's strange right as a kid the space between winter break and glorious summer freedom seems like a lifetime but
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Congressional Goats -...
low-impact and I think we're rediscovering some real old technology that needs to be brought back sites like this where we have rocks piles of dirt deep ditches lots of down logs the goats you know do a really good job just clamoring over whatever they need to and
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Can you solve the stolen...
is clamoring for their confiscation to reimburse his victims. But the scoundrel and his allies at court have made a convincing case that at least some of his wealth was obtained legitimately, and through good service to the crown. The king ponders for a minute
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The Emancipation...
thousand men are dead after years of fighting Lincoln is under incredible pressure to justify the terrible sacrifice and bloodshed on one side he has abolitionists clamoring to give the war a moral purpose but Lincoln worries
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Nature's Greatest...
dawn breaks with their noisy clamor so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying names they visit
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Birds of Paradise Mating...
dawn breaks with their noisy clamor so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying males they visit
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Boogie at an Animal...
Dawn breaks with their noisy clamour, so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying males.
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The pleasure of poetic...
a repeated pattern of stressed syllables, is a form of repetition. Yet for all its varied uses, too much repetition can backfire. Imagine writing the same sentence on the blackboard twenty times, again, and again, and again, and again, or imagine a young child clamoring for her mother's attention,
Video examples
Making waves: The power...
the concentration of salt ions. So, down you go, riding along the concentration gradient towards more comfortable conditions. For salt ions, however, their lower concentration at the surface, acts like an advertisement to the clamoring masses of salt molecules below who begin their assent.
Video examples
What's wrong with what...
So now, you've got your pizza nights, you've got your microwave nights, you've got your grazing nights, you've got your fend-for-yourself nights and so on. Leading the way -- what's leading the way? Meat, junk food, the very stuff that will kill you. So, now we clamor for organic food.
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What does your time feel...
but here we are clamoring for any air-conditioned building in sight even though it seems like just yesterday we were all rattling on about the polar vortex it's strange right as a kid the space between winter break and glorious summer freedom seems like a lifetime but
Video examples
Congressional Goats -...
low-impact and I think we're rediscovering some real old technology that needs to be brought back sites like this where we have rocks piles of dirt deep ditches lots of down logs the goats you know do a really good job just clamoring over whatever they need to and
Video examples
Can you solve the stolen...
is clamoring for their confiscation to reimburse his victims. But the scoundrel and his allies at court have made a convincing case that at least some of his wealth was obtained legitimately, and through good service to the crown. The king ponders for a minute
Video examples
The Emancipation...
thousand men are dead after years of fighting Lincoln is under incredible pressure to justify the terrible sacrifice and bloodshed on one side he has abolitionists clamoring to give the war a moral purpose but Lincoln worries
Video examples
Nature's Greatest...
dawn breaks with their noisy clamor so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying names they visit
Video examples
Birds of Paradise Mating...
dawn breaks with their noisy clamor so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying males they visit
Video examples
Boogie at an Animal...
Dawn breaks with their noisy clamour, so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying males.
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Quote examples
Jeff Dunham
American Comedian
My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.
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John Hickenlooper
American Politician
Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold businesses accountable. Once you do that, most of the chambers of commerce and those who are clamoring around immigration will take a deep breath and relax.
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J. M. Coetzee
South African Author
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
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Daniel Stern
American Actor
My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.
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August Strindberg
Swedish Dramatist
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
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Hermann Hesse
German Novelist
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Quote examples
Jeff Dunham
American Comedian
My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.
Quote examples
John Hickenlooper
American Politician
Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold businesses accountable. Once you do that, most of the chambers of commerce and those who are clamoring around immigration will take a deep breath and relax.
Quote examples
J. M. Coetzee
South African Author
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
Quote examples
Daniel Stern
American Actor
My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.
Quote examples
August Strindberg
Swedish Dramatist
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
Quote examples
Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Quote examples
Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Quote examples
Hermann Hesse
German Novelist
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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